Today’s Power Adds School Array in Viola

Today’s Power Inc. of North Little Rock, the busy solar array builder owned by the state’s electric cooperatives, chalked up another school project on Tuesday, dedicating a 480-kilowatt project for the Viola School District in Fulton County.

The 1,280-panel array is built to provide 90% of the school system’s electricity demand per year. North Arkansas Electric Cooperative will supply the remainder.

The solar provider, which recently dedicated or broke ground on school projects in St. Joe and Berryville, will own the Viola array and supply power to the schools through a 20-year solar services contract. The project was awarded through a request-for-proposals process, and officials described the facility as “one way for the district to be fiscally responsible and environmentally sustainable.”

Superintendent of Schools John May said that as a public district, his system has a “duty and obligation to use all available resources to be fiscally responsible.” He praised the clean, renewable energy, the opportunity to minimize the district’s carbon footprint, and Today’s Power’s professionalism and dependability.